{"id":517,"date":"2016-11-12T05:08:31","date_gmt":"2016-11-12T05:08:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cornelllunatic.com\/?p=517"},"modified":"2026-06-18T13:37:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T17:37:09","slug":"the-origin-story-of-a-humble-new-yorker-much-like-yourselves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cornelllunatic.com\/?p=517","title":{"rendered":"The origin story of a humble New Yorker much like yourselves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cornelllunatic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/liberty.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-519 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cornelllunatic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/liberty.png\" alt=\"liberty\" width=\"103\" height=\"276\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cornelllunatic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/liberty.png 282w, https:\/\/cornelllunatic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/liberty-112x300.png 112w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 103px) 100vw, 103px\" \/><\/a>I was born in Queens in forty-six<br \/>\nto a mean old dad and learned real quick<br \/>\nthat knives and bricks and stones and sticks<br \/>\n(although they&#8217;re good for breaking hips)<br \/>\nare pale beside a well timed quip,<br \/>\na little snippet of insults dished<br \/>\n&#8217;bout wives or looks or nervous tics<br \/>\nand when they call you a bulbous prick<br \/>\nor say you&#8217;re pulling dirty tricks,<br \/>\nremind them you&#8217;ll wall out the spics&#8212;<br \/>\nthey&#8217;ll clap and cheer and tick, tick, tick,<br \/>\nyou&#8217;ll scoop the Oval Office quick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p> <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cornelllunatic.com\/?p=517\" title=\"The origin story of a humble New Yorker much like yourselves\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[22,9,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-content","category-current-events","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cornelllunatic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cornelllunatic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cornelllunatic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cornelllunatic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cornelllunatic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=517"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.cornelllunatic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":529,"href":"https:\/\/www.cornelllunatic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517\/revisions\/529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cornelllunatic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cornelllunatic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cornelllunatic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}